Issue 41 of Gold Key’s Star Trek comic was found in shops for November, 1976. It was written by Arnold Drake, had art by Alden McWilliams and another lovely cover painting by George Wilson. The blurb for the story sounds very similar to an episode of The Next Generation aired in 1989, the season three…
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Northern Exposure (1994) – A Bolt from the Blue, and Hello, I Love You
It’s another odd week for the residents of Cicely, Alaska with A Bolt from the Blue. Written by Jeff Melvoin, this episode was first broadcast on 24 January, 1994. Joel (Rob Morrow) is called in by the local Forest Service to talk down one of their Park Rangers. It seems Stan (Jimmie Ray Weeks), the…
Silver Bullet (1985) – Daniel Attias
The next werewolf title to come along in DK Canada’s Monsters in the Movies is an adaptation of Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf starring Corey Haim, Megan Follows and Gary Busey. This one hasn’t stood up well to my nostalgia, but on reflection, if you have someone (a younger viewer) that you want to…
Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) – Stephen King
Reading like a cross between Our Town and The Wolfman, Stephen King’s too short novella, Cycle of the Werewolf is on the Book Shelf this week. Serving as the basis of the 1985 film, Silver Bullet, Werewolf reads as a not fleshed out enough short story. That’s not to say it doesn’t work. It does….
The Mind Reels 